The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 39 68 63
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 90 39 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 4.899% 2.697% 2.603%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.211% 2.768% 2.720%
Number of salaries quoted 76 37 41
Average salary £43,125 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.16% -
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
All Job Titles
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1727 1409 1581
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 94.01% 97.44% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1495 1270 1426
Average salary £40,000 £39,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.26% -1.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
South East

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing DBA across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oxfordshire DBA Jobs Demand Trend

DBA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing DBA across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DBA across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Oxfordshire DBA Salary Histogram

DBA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Oxford -13 28 £45,000 -10.00%
Abingdon -6 14 £48,500 +49.23%
Wantage - 11 £41,000 -
Bicester - 4 - -
Thame +10 1 £32,500 -
DBA
South East

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with DBA in their job title.

1 98 (74.81%) SQL Server
2 88 (67.18%) SQL
3 65 (49.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 56 (42.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 50 (38.17%) Windows
6 44 (33.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 43 (32.82%) SQL Server 2005
8 42 (32.06%) Oracle
9 40 (30.53%) SQL Server 2012
10 34 (25.95%) SQL Server 2008
11 33 (25.19%) Microsoft
12 32 (24.43%) MS Excel
13 31 (23.66%) Clustering
13 31 (23.66%) Data Analysis
14 29 (22.14%) SAN
15 28 (21.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 26 (19.85%) DTS
16 26 (19.85%) T-SQL
16 26 (19.85%) Windows Server 2008
17 22 (16.79%) Database Security
17 22 (16.79%) Data Security
17 22 (16.79%) Data Guard
18 20 (15.27%) Oracle RAC
19 19 (14.50%) Linux
20 18 (13.74%) Data Warehouse
20 18 (13.74%) RDBMS
21 17 (12.98%) SLA
21 17 (12.98%) ITIL
21 17 (12.98%) Degree
22 16 (12.21%) Business Intelligence

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (3.053%) CSS
1 4 (3.053%) HTML
2 2 (1.527%) Middleware
3 1 (0.763%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.817%) IIS
2 3 (2.290%) Apache
3 2 (1.527%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.763%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 32 (24.43%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (4.580%) BPCS
1 6 (4.580%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.527%) Epicor iScala
Communications & Networking
1 29 (22.14%) SAN
2 3 (2.290%) Intranet
2 3 (2.290%) Internet
3 1 (0.763%) DHCP
3 1 (0.763%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.763%) VPN
3 1 (0.763%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (74.81%) SQL Server
2 65 (49.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 56 (42.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 44 (33.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 43 (32.82%) SQL Server 2005
6 40 (30.53%) SQL Server 2012
7 34 (25.95%) SQL Server 2008
8 28 (21.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 26 (19.85%) DTS
10 18 (13.74%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (13.74%) RDBMS
11 13 (9.924%) MySQL
12 11 (8.397%) Oracle 11g
13 7 (5.344%) Oracle 10g
14 6 (4.580%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (4.580%) MOLAP
14 6 (4.580%) Oracle BI EE
14 6 (4.580%) MongoDB
15 5 (3.817%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (2.290%) QlikView
General
1 13 (9.924%) Finance
2 6 (4.580%) Marketing
3 3 (2.290%) Publishing
4 2 (1.527%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.66%) Clustering
2 13 (9.924%) Replication
3 12 (9.160%) Statistics
4 6 (4.580%) iSeries
5 2 (1.527%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.763%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.763%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 50 (38.17%) Windows
2 26 (19.85%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (14.50%) Linux
4 9 (6.870%) Solaris
5 8 (6.107%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.580%) UNIX
7 1 (0.763%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.66%) Data Analysis
2 22 (16.79%) Database Security
2 22 (16.79%) Data Security
3 17 (12.98%) ITIL
4 16 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (9.160%) Enterprise Architecture
5 12 (9.160%) Resource Management
6 11 (8.397%) Incident Management
6 11 (8.397%) Problem Management
7 10 (7.634%) Data Management
8 8 (6.107%) ERP
8 8 (6.107%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (5.344%) Volume Testing
9 7 (5.344%) Business Analysis
9 7 (5.344%) Project Management
9 7 (5.344%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (4.580%) Marketing Analytics
10 6 (4.580%) Analytics
11 5 (3.817%) High Availability
12 4 (3.053%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (67.18%) SQL
2 26 (19.85%) T-SQL
3 11 (8.397%) PL/SQL
4 6 (4.580%) C
5 4 (3.053%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.053%) PHP
6 1 (0.763%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Degree
2 8 (6.107%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (5.344%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.344%) MCDBA
4 5 (3.817%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.98%) SLA
2 12 (9.160%) QA
3 4 (3.053%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (15.27%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.763%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.763%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.763%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (16.79%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 42 (32.06%) Oracle
2 33 (25.19%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.107%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.580%) Cognos
5 3 (2.290%) Tableau
6 2 (1.527%) VMware
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
The Individual Of graduate calibre with extensive experience in developing and administering database applications using MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 in clustered and high availability environments. Technical...
RM Education
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + + bonus
Posted: 7 May 2013